Saturday, June 7, 2014

Carving an Eye

At this point in the carving I have shaped the eye mound. I use a #11 3mm to carve a deep hole between the nose and eye, this is the deepest point on the face. Carve a hole on the outer side of each eye and round the mound. I draw in a narrow eye, most eyes are carved too large making the carving look bug eyed or surprised. Try to match both eyes, if needed use a set of calipers. I use veiners to lay out the eyes, if you start with a knife you can not adjust the eyes to match without carving deeper than the stop cuts the knife made.
I use a #11 1mm to carve the eye.






Carve the eye in with a knife.
Match up the other eye.

Carve up to stop cut.
Same on the bottom of eye.
Make two stab cuts in the corner.

A third stab cut to pop out chip. 








The result.
Same cut on corners of eye.
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Use the #11 3mm to lay in the lower eyelid.
Carve area for upper eyelid.

Use a #3 upside down for brow.

Draw in the bag below the eye.
Add character lines.
I used a v-tool to deepen eyelid cuts.

2 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! I tend to do much smaller carvings, but always have the hardest times with eyes so tend to cheat and make my Santas squinting because he's smiling so hard!

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  2. Thanks for the comments! I use to do the same thing, and that's a good look for some carvings, especially Santa. But I found carving an eye is like anything else, the more you do the easier they are to carve.
    Randy

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